Learn Digital Electronics With Me

I was looking to do some online learning as that’s something I like to do from time to time to keep the synapses firing. So I started thinking ‘well, what’s interesting and something I haven’t done before?’ I realised that even though I’ve been using, playing and working with computers for nearly my entire life, I didn’t really understand how computers actually worked. I mean at the chip level, at the electronics and electricity level. Sure I sort of have an understanding of binary and I’ve made some simple circuits with an arduino. But I really didn’t understand exactly what was happening under the hood of a computer.

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How you can block your own traffic from your Shopify store's Google Analytics

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Tips for 3D Printing N00bs

… from a 3D printing n00b.

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Meet my Anet A8 DIY 3D Printer

Didn’t curate a list of good links this week so posting about my 3D printing side project. Here’s a bit of information about my Anet A8 3D printer. If you’ve never heard of the Anet A8, its a cheap but capable 3D printer you can buy from sites like GearBest. I was given one intact but non-functioning by a guy from work. Trying to get it to work has meant lots of time on youtube, stackoverflow and reddit. It’s a bit maddening really.

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Surfing Route 3 Wave on the Black River

When my Dad moved house several years back, he gave me a couple of old VHS tapes of mine that had been stored in the basement. I finally took the time to watch them (it’s not easy finding VHS players these days!) and found this old clip of me ripping it up on Route 3 wave on the Black River in Watertown, NY.

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Links of the week - February 10, 2020 Edition

Some interesting things to read that I found during the week of February 10th, 2020 …

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Links of the week - February 2, 2020 Edition

Some interesting reading I found during the week of 03/02/2020…

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My first year allotment, then and now

Bit happenstance really but I had the opportunity to lease an allotment plot from the council which I took late last year (2018). I had grand dreams of neat rows of beautiful and bountiful crops but the reality was far from the dream.

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Photo - Arduino Uno Macro

Was tinkering with my Arduino and happened to have my SLR with a macro lens to hand so took this snap which I thought came out pretty well. SO much so I decided to post it on Unsplash. No downloads yet tho!

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First visit to spurs new stadium

… and it was to see an NFL game of all things. Lucked upon a free ticket to see Bears vs Raiders which I believe was the first NFL game to be played in the new Tottenham Hotspur stadium. The new stadium really is impressive with great atmosphere inside. Can’t wait to get to see Spurs play which will hopefully happen this season.

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Welcome to Jekyll!

You’ll find this post in your _posts directory - edit this post and re-build (or run with the -w switch) to see your changes! To add new posts, simply add a file in the _posts directory that follows the convention: YYYY-MM-DD-name-of-post.ext.

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